France proposes breaking dependence on American big tech by adopting Linux
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Wasn't Linux ALSO something developed in the US?
The issue isn't just that you're using systems developed and maintained by US companies, it's that you don't have the tech base to develop YOUR OWN because your regulations stifle entrepreneurship and especially tech development.
I think their idea is to use an open source system that they can build their own proprietary version of and not have to pay royalties to Microsoft. Thats if they ever actually do this.
Yeah, never discount how much ANY establishment loves nothing more than to say they'll do something but sit on their hands instead...
They (Europe) has been saying they would move to Linux for almost 20 years. Some municipalities have but those are few and far between.
They won't do it because the reality is that Linux is not and never will be a viable alternative to Windows. It's an OS for servers that have a very narrowly defined function, not a desktop environment for normies that can be smoothly managed at scale.
I imagine this news has made this bit of trivia fairly common now, but France already does. The Gendarmerie switched to their own in-house version of Ubuntu when Microsoft stopped supporting XP like ten years ago.
The French pension system has destroyed their country. Isn’t it something like a company pays 1.5x tax for each employee? It’s absurd.
Pretty sure Linus Torvalds was a Swede, and "Linux" is an open-source initiative with global contributions.
There have been large institutional contributions from companies based in the US as well, like IBM's Red Hat/Fedora Core (or whatever they're calling it these days).
At this pointt and time, developing a new OS (kernel level) is pretty much impossible.
Even Google couldn't do it. Their Android is reskinned Linux.
No and no.